Buckle



C. E. BRADSHAW.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY1B,192|,

Patented Sept. 5, 1922.

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CONECTUT f BUCKLE.

Application led May 18, 1921. Serial No. 470,564.

T 0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BRAD- srraw, a citizen of the United Statesresid ing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in- Fig. 1 a rear view of a buckle constructed inaccordance with this invention and vshown as applied to apiece of webbing.

Fig. 2 a side view of the same.

Fig, 3 a detached view of the loop member.

Fig. 4 a detached view of a modified form of loop.

Fig.l 5 a side view of the same, showing it in connection with a piece of webbing.

Fig. 6 a side partly in section view of a buckle having a loop, as shown in Fig. 4, with a. clip by which lthe web is connected thereto.

Fig. T a view of a loop, as shown in Fig. l, connected to a piece of webbing by means of a staple.

Fig. 8 a sectional view on the line 8-8'of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 a view of a loop, as shown-in Fig. 4, connected to apiece of webbing by means of headedl rivets or studs.

Fig. 10 a sectional view on the line 10-10 of Fig. 9. i

This invention relates to improvement in buckles, and particularly to buckles comprising a wire loop-like frame formed from a single piece of wire, the ends of which are bent inward to form pintles upon which a lever is mounted. The object of. this invention is to so construct the loop as to facili- .tate webbin and reduce the amount'of webbing genera ly necessary, andthe invention consists in the constructions as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims. i

In carrying out my invention, I employ a wire loop 15, formed from a single piece, with inwardly is mounted a ver A17 having the usual gripand the characters turned. ends 16 upon whichy edge 18,. The central portion of the loop is flattened so as to reduce the-thickness of the wire,'and it is formedwith upwardly projecting the center, the adjacent portions of the bends being connected by a U-shaped bridge 21, which stands directlyin the rear of the projections 19 and 2O and between whichvthe end 22 of a piece of webbing maybe clamped and thus secured to the loop withoutstitching, and thus reducing the .amount of web generally necessary. ,y Asin bucklesof this bends 19 and 2O on opposite sides of typethe web extends from the loop downward through some supporting means not hown and upward between the loop and the ever, of employing the bridge 21, this may be omitted, as sh'ownin Fig. 4 of the drawings, so as to produce two 'upwardly extending projections 23, which, beinglattened, will readily pass in the webbing, as indicated in Fig. 5 of the drawings; or, instead-of havingthe projections extend through ythe webbing, the webbing may be secured to the projections by a; U-shaped clip 24, as shown in Fig. 6of the 8O ple 25 may be passed throughthe webbing,`

drawings; or, instead of using a clip, a staand between thebends in the projection an between which it is gripped. Instead i i tl'irough slots formed for them the ends folded 0ver,as indicated in Figs. 7 and Sof the drawings; or, 'instead of a staple, two headed rivets 26 may be passed through the webbing between the bends in the loop and upset on the lower face ofthe webbing, as indicated in Figs. 9 and 10 of the drawings. .In every case, the kcentral porn tion of the loop is flattened, so as to reduce the thiclmess and form a surface against whichV the running portion of the web is clamped by the lever and in each instance the web is secured vto the loop without stitching, thus simplifying the time requiredl to attach the web to the buckle and reducing the amount of web usually necessary.

I claim: y i

1. A buckle comprising a wire loop and a lever pivotally connected with the ends thereof, the loopv flattened' between its endsv and formed with upwardly-extending bends i forniingflat bearingsurfaces with which the' lever coacts. 0 y

2. A buckle comprising a wlreloop and a lever pivotally connectedthrewitmzthe cen-y tml portion of the loop formed with an upspecieation in the presence of two subscribwerdly-pi'ojeeting U-shaped bridge, and ing witnesses.

with two upwardly-turned bends at the ends of the bridge, between which bridge and CHASE' BRADSHAW' bends the web is adapted to be gTipped, and Witnesses with which bridge the lever co-acts. FREDERIC C. EARLE,

` In testimony whereof, I have signed this MALCOLM P. NICHOLS. 

